When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs - Softcover

Kimball, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060556102 ISBN 13: 9780060556105

Publisher: Harper San Francisco, 2003

Synopsis

Top Religion Book of 2002--Publishers Weekly

The Five Warning Signs of Corruption in Religion

1. Absolute Truth Claims
2. Blind Obedience
3. Establishing the "Ideal" Time
4. The End Justifies Any Means
5. Declaring Holy War

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Review:

?I cannot imagine a more timely or insightful book for the time in whichwe live.?Clifton Kirkpatrick, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ?A wise, perceptive, and fair assessment ... Just the book for today's and tomorrow's journey of faith.?Walter Harrelson, Professor emeritus, Vanderbilt University ?A bold, powerful, truth-telling analysis of the ways in which religions can become destructive.?Diana L. Eck, author of A New Religious America ?Effectively confronts, analyzes and explores the maddeningly diffuse forms of religious impulse...?Rev. Ken Sehested, executive director of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America and co-editor of "Peace Primer: Quotes from Christian and Islamic Scripture and Tradition" ?Charles Kimball has uttered a cry that resonates like ?a fire bell in the night.? ?Arthur Hertzberg, Bronfman Visiting Professor of Humanities, New York University

"A great deal of insight ...." -- John Berthrong, Associate Dean for Boston University School of Theology

"[A] thought-provoking analysis." -- Cecile S. Holmes, Religion News Service

"Well-reasoned and focused." -- Wayne Holst, The [Toronto] Star

Effectively confronts, analyzes and explores the maddeningly diffuse forms of religious impulse... --Rev. Ken Sehested, executive director of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America and co-editor of "Peace Primer: Quotes from Christian and Islamic Scripture and Tradition"

"[T]imely and persuasive . . . . deserves to be widely read."--Fellowship Magazine

"Kimball...displays a fair hand in assessing how the world's leading religions can be used for both good and evil."--Baptists Today

"[A] thought-provoking analysis."--Cecile S. Holmes, Religion News Service

"Well-reasoned and focused."--Wayne Holst, The [Toronto] Star

"Effectively confronts, analyzes and explores the maddeningly diffuse forms of religious impulse..."--Rev. Ken Sehested, executive director of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America and co-editor of "Peace Primer: Quotes from Christian and Islamic Scripture and Tradition"

About the Author:

Charles Kimball is a professor of comparative religion at Wake Forest University. An ordained Baptist minister who received his doctorate from Harvard University in comparative religion with specialization in Islamic studies, Dr. Kimball is the author of three books about religion in the Middle East.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper San Francisco
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060556102
• ISBN 13: 9780060556105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256